President Akufo-Addo has touted his administration’s efforts on the digitalisation agenda of the country, indicating that the West African nation has made “giant strides in digitalisation”.
The President stressed that the country is currently ranked number one in West Africa and seventh in Africa as far as e-governance is concerned.
“Ghana is making giant strides in the area of digitalisation thereby improving transparency, accountability and efficiency in the public sector and accelerating the growth of our economy,” said President Akufo-Addo.
The President also maintained that digitalisation in the country’s health sector has afforded hospitals across the country the ability to share medical records of patients digitally.
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“We have also networked all teaching, regional and district hospitals and patients records can easily be accessed in hospitals without the need for a folder”, he stated.
President Akufo-Addo also noted that the Vice President, Dr Bawumia, will in the coming days, launch a performance tracker for Ghanaians to track government projects.
He said, “This is a digitalization government, and the man who is leading this, my indefatigable vice president, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Dr Digitalisation, the NPP’s excellent presidential candidate for the 2024 elections is coming up with what will allow everybody to check on every project being undertaken by the government without having to listen to the president address, this is the performance tracker.
“Never again will pictures of artistic impressions of projects will be presented as projects completed.”
Regarding the 2024 elections, President Akufo-Addo assured that the government will do all it can to ensure that the work of the Electoral Commission (EC) is done smoothly.
He said the government will ensure free, fair, and transient polls.
“Government is doing its part to make the work of the electoral commission smooth,” he said while also asking the commission to work with the political parties to iron out whatever differences there will be.
